Walker Evans American Photographs

Papageorge, Tod: Passing Through Eden: Photographs of Central Park. ; 1. Ed.
Steidl, 2007. First edition, first printing. New, mint, unread condition. Hardcover in linen with dustjacket. 176 pages, 125 tritone plates. 305 x 292 mm. Tod Papageorge began to photograph extensively in New York's Central Park in the late 1970s, a few years after he turned from the Leica to medium-format cameras. These pictures, gathered in Passing Through Eden, luminously trace, as Rosalind Krauss has written about Papageorge's work, "photography's capacity to embrace the sensuous richness of physical reality [in order to] come to that fullness which Baudelaire used to call intimacy, when he meant eroticism." From picture to picture, Papageorge constructs a realm that resembles our common world, but that, in its intense marrying of the sensual and poetic, irresistibly calls up the Eden invoked in the book's title. Even more than this, he has edited and sequenced Passing Through Eden to parallel in its first half the opening chapters of Genesis - from the Creation through the (metaphorical) generations that follow on from Cain - before giving over the rest of the book to a virtuosic run of pictures that, from one to the next, might invoke Man before the Flood, Shakespeare's The Tempest, or energetically confirm that the human comedy is alive and well in Central Park.This ambitious book - incorporating work made over the course of 25 years - describes not only Papageorge's remarkable success at making photographs that often read like condensed narratives, but also his bold attempt to weave them into extended sequences that echo shared cultural narratives. It challenges the reader to succumb (or not) to the pleasures of the "fullness" of each individual photograph, while ignoring (or not) the tug of a tale asking to be told. Like Eden itself, this book sets our hunger for beauty against that of knowledge, while reminding us of some of the ways that we read, and come to know, books. Tod Papageorge began to photograph in 1962 at the University of New Hampshire, shortly before he received a degree in English Literature. Since 1979 he has been the Walker Evans Professor of Photography at the Yale University School of Art, where, as the Director of Graduate Studies, he has taught and supervised the course of study of many of the strongest American photographers of the last 25 years. His work has been exhibited internationally, and is included in the collections of more than 30 major museums. In addition, he has written seminal essays on several significant American photographers, including Evans, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, and Robert Adams.***************Steidl, Göttingen, 2007. Erstausgabe. Hardcover in Leinen mit Schutzumschlag. Neu, ungelesen, verlagsfrisch. 176 Seiten, 125 Fotos. 305 x 292 mm.

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Doty, Robert (Ed.): Photography in America. Introductuion by Minor White. With 259 illustrations. 14 in colour. London: Thames and Hudson, 1974.
Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - More than 250 photographs from America's greatest collections, representing the work of 86 outstanding photographers, show us not only some of the great landmarks in the history of photography, but also many unpublished and unfamiliar images of American masters of the camera. For sixty years, f rom Southworth & Hawes in the 1840s to the early twentieth century, American photographers provided an incomparable record of the country during its coming of age : the exciting opening up of the West, no less than the harsh face of war, recorded in Mathew Brady's Civil War photographs, or the New York slums, seen in the work of Jacob Bus. Our owyn century has brought achievements as rich as they are varied : the slow", uncertain and painful growth of photography into an art, above all through Stieglitz, Steichen and the other members of the Photo-Secession ; Walker Evans ' study of tenant farmers in the South and the development of documentaiy photography; Diane Arbus, reaching below the surface of humanity with her photographs of freaks and transvestites ; and in recent years adventurous use of advanced technology and rejection of preconceived patterns of thought. The result is a book which is at once a brilliant survey of the evolution of photography and an extraordinary visual history of American life. -

255 S. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

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Friedlander, Lee: LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. London: Jonathan Cape, 1993. ISBN: 9780224032957
Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - Lee Friedlander, whose recently published books range from studies of nudes to the musicians of New Orleans, adds to the diversity of his work in Letters from the People by photographing language itself. He also confirms his position as one of the major American photographers in the tradition of Walker Evans, whose book Message from the Interior provided the scale on which Letters from the People is based. The scale is monumental. The book begins with the alphabet, moves into numerals, and then develops into sentences. The dynamics of this found language, photographed from the streets and walls of America, is heightened by the irregular grid of the book design. Starting with the simplest device, Friedlander has built a great American epic, resonant with the democracy of the title. (Klappentext). ISBN 9780224032957 - , ISBN: 022403295X

88 S. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

[SW: Photographs: collections, linguistics, Friedlander, Lee, Photography, Artistic, USA, Non-Classifiable, Photography / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions, Photography]

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Stange, Maren: Symbols of ideal life. Social documentary photography in America 1890-1950, Cambridge [England]; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780521324410
Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - The documentary style that dominates American photography had its origins in the social reform publicity campaigns of the turn of the century. Maren Stange traces the history of this genre and its main participants, who include Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, and Russell Lee. Her book is a provocative reassessment of the interaction between photography, political culture, and the nature of American mass-consumption in the 20th century. In order to emphasize the continuity of documentary codes and conventions, Stange examines four major reform campaigns: Jacob Riis's anti-tenement work of the 1890s, the Tenement House Exhibition of 1900, the Pittsburgh Survey of 1907-14, and the Farm Security Administration's Photography Project of 1935-43. She also discusses the textbook American Economic Life and the Means of its Improvement ( by Roy Stryker and Rexford Tugwell and illustrated with photographs by Lewis Hine), the spectacular photography exhibitions curated by Edward Steichen at the Museum of Modern Art in the 1940s and 1950s, and the documentary project directed by Roy Stryker for Standard Oil of New Jersey from 1943-50. ISBN 9780521324410 - , ISBN: 0521324416

XVII, 190 S. Mit zahlr. Abb. Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag.

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